320 BP.

Caps on chargen qualities are 25 positive/negative.

The last stat point does not cost 25 BP but 10.

Skills and stats can all go up to 6 without penalties, but only one at 6 or 2 at 5.

You can spend all your BP's on stats, if you'd like.

Skills are capped at 4 normally, 6 with Aptitude.

At chargen, skills cost 2 BP per point, groups cost 5 BP, and stats cost 10 BP.

After chargen, skills cost the rating you want to raise them to, groups cost twice the rating, and stats cost 3 times the rating.

For cash for Karma, skill karma costs 2,500 , stats cost 5,000 , and you can't buy Edge or Magic with cash for karma.

Orichalcum now allows you to shave 2 karma per unit off of bonding costs. You can buy half a unit.

Creating a focus from scratch, harvesting all the telesma for a focus, designing the formula, and enchanting it using materials you collected and made radical, will reduce the karma multiplier by 2. So power foci will cost 6 times the force instead of 8. But this is only if you do the whole shebang yourself. Otherwise, you get no odd benefits. This means sustaining foci will be completely free if you do this. Of course, "free" means 3 months of designing, harvesting, and enchanting.

Each exotic telesma you integrate into the focus that isn't there to pay off a critical glitch reduces the multiplier by 1. Finding one is an adventure in and of itself.

Complex forms come in at Resonance and level up with Resonance. They cost 3 BP and 5 karma. They balance against hackers because hackers can shoot technomancers in the head.

You get charisma in contact BP for free.

Magic is capped at 4 at chargen no matter what. It's capped at 6 out of chargen and is raised by initiation as normal.

Availability is now limited to 10.

Swarm (real name Paul Johnson) started off working for Renraku. Initially he was hoping to get into the Red Samurai, or to work as a spider, and had started job training in appropriate fields to reach those goals, but was denied any of the more advanced training (he wasn't naturally gifted enough) and instead got stuck in a dead-end security job guarding a minor facility (he didn't really understand his technomancer abilities at the time, or their value). over the next years, every nuyen he got that didn't go to basic needs went towards furthering his abilities in those two areas, resorting even to the use of cyberware in spite of his technomantic abilities

unfortunately, while he was still young, disaster (for his career at renraku anyways) struck. He goblinised at the age of 27, and was placed in a lab during his change for study by researchers (cases of goblinisation are getting rarer all the time, and are therefore harder to find cases to study) and during examination by awakened personnel, they discovered he was a technomancer. having heard horror stories about technomancers being experimented on, when swarm discovered they knew about his abilities he used his sprites to get into their records to check up on their plans for him, and found out they were planning on running some "tests" on him (incidentally, they wouldn't have been dangerous tests at all, but he thought they were, which was enough to cause him to act).

during a runner break-in of the facility, he used his drones to escape while the security forces were distracted, escaping with a number of his drones. he has been hiding for the past few months, worried renraku would be looking for him (they aren't really, but he has been blacklisted for his disloyalty in leaving, and unofficially for being an ork, and is technically a criminal for breaking his contract. he's just not worth the effort for them to track down as long as he's willing to go to any effort to hide).

he has just begun to get himself set up in the shadows, and is now regretting the time he spent using skillwires instead of practising his skills on his own (but the old skills will hopefully come back... he got rid of the skillsofts, they were renraku produced, and he was worried about them spying on him or worse)

Sharky was born on the street. Never knew his parents and all that stuff. Well, sucks to be him. He wanted to join the local gang when he was younger, but he was frail and not fit for street fighting. At the same time, he started to listen to goblin rock and his favorite band was The Eleventh Toenail, an all-ork gang. In was only a matterof time before the young, uneducated elf started to idolize the strength and musical talent of these orks. He even dreamt of being like them one day, and did everything he could to reach that goal. He started to exercise on a regular basis and developed an impressive muscular mass for an elf. With minor biomodifications, he was also able to look like an ork fairly easily and was accepted into the ork underground, where he joined an all ork gang and started to kick some asses as sprawl ganger. The leap from the street to the shadow is really easy.

here's the plan: dumping 100 normal assault rifle ammo (200 nuyen) for a moodchip (~50? 'sunshine' chip) and a P-fix chip (~150?) which preferrably mildly overlays his actual personality. the basic idea for the P-fix is to make him still in control of himself, but change his habits a little bit, if that's ok. he would have used it to make himself harder to track (he's a little paranoid... which is probably good)